Registration at #ASSA2023 was 6,000 in advance vs 12,000 at #assa2020 in San Diego. Missing include 1.5k job market candidates, ~2-3k interviewers, others. Impact: $900K loss on meeting. Effect: reg fees will go up for 2024. Per #aea sec/treas Rousseau at business meeting.
https://twitter.com/MarthaOlney/status/1611519172663734272
Get woke, go broke...
They're telling themselves it was because of reproductive rights issues. How about getting your abortion before or after the conference?
I didn't sign up because of the mask and booster mandate. AEA shouldn't force its politics on everyone else.
They don’t want abortions, they want “assisted miscarriages.” Totally normal people just concerned about normal stuff.
It's not abortion or masks. It's just not that useful a conference unless your interviewing.
2022 Financial Management Association conference was fairly packed despite not much interviewing done there. IMO, it's indeed the combination of mask requirement (it absolutely was not reqired at the FMA, and I'd say less than 2-3 percent wore masks there) and the greater share of COVID-scared woke crowd in economics (compared to finance).
First they complain incessantly about AEA being a place where JMCs are harassed, pregnant women are in extreme danger, people get covid and die. That is, they exaggerated things enormously and made very rare events look like they were the norm. They effectively managed to kill conference attendance and now they whine about it.
It's not abortion or masks. It's just not that useful a conference unless your interviewing.2022 Financial Management Association conference was fairly packed despite not much interviewing done there. IMO, it's indeed the combination of mask requirement (it absolutely was not reqired at the FMA, and I'd say less than 2-3 percent wore masks there) and the greater share of COVID-scared woke crowd in economics (compared to finance).
fma in any case is way more fun than AFA.. no uptight narcissistic people at FMA